Cool pix!

"An American soldier examines a captured Type 92 Nambu MG on Saipan, July 1944. The machine gun was also nicknamed the "woodpecker" by the Allies."

 

"USS Maryland and destroyers USS Hovey and USS Long in the Miraflores Locks while transiting the Panama Canal, 24 Apr 1931.[1,159x939]"

Size matters.

 

I wonder if some of the guys got two medals for that shit.

 

Source: USS Hovey (DD-208/DMS-11)

https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/alphabetical-listing/ I downloaded >54,000 pictures from that link twenty years ago. It's ... grown since then.

 

"USS North Carolina, 3 June 1942. Commissioned on the 9 April 1941, she was the first new US battleship in 18 years. [3156 x 1672]"

 

"Aboard USS Hancock (CV-19), ammunition handlers fasten 5” rockets on the wing of an F4U Corsair prior to take off for strike on Kyushu, Japan, 21 March 1945."

 

"Iain Wyllie - Gloster Gladiator I in Combat with an Italian Breda 65 over North Africa, 1941."

 

"Testing F4F machine guns aboard the USS Ranger en route to North Africa, November 1942."

 

"Anti Tank Vespa 150 TAP Scooter made for French Paratroopers during WW2. Known as the "Bazooka Vespa" for obvious reasons. [1280x904]"

"This is what comes from twenty years of socialism." ;-)

 

"Winston Churchill handling a 'Tommy gun' during an inspection of invasion coastal defences near Hartlepool, County Durham, England. 1940 [1440×1442]"

The Nazis made use of that picture. "Allied gangster!"

 

"Sherman M4A3E8. At the National museum of military vehicles in Dubois, Wyoming."

May be M4A3(76)W HVSS...

 

"B-24Ds of 93rd Bomb Group in formation. Nearest aircraft is Joisey Bounce (s/n 41-24226), wingman is The Duchess, (s/n 41-24147), and next higher is Bomerang (s/n 41-23722).USAAF"

 

"Battleship USS South Carolina (BB-26) drydocked at the Brooklyn Navy yard, september 1912. [5570 × 4481]"

I got to walk under Missouri once. Made me feel damn small.

 

"Replacement Boeing B-17G Flying Fortresses lined up on an English airfield to replace squadron losses for the U.S. Eighth Air Force. [3072x2616]"

"Amateurs think tactics, experts think logistics."

 

"[740 x 580]USS Reno (CL-96) ) under salvage after she was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-41 on 3 November 1944, while operating off the Philippines. The photograph was taken the following day and shows the tug with USS Zuni (ATF-95) alongside."

The Cherokee-class auxiliaries were also used as ASRs (Submarine rescue/salvage vessels). One of my uncles served on one in the 1960s. "Our motto was 'well, we tried.' " Loved his morbid sense of humor.